Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art, an object of the present invention is to provide a method of processing an asymmetric planar substrate, a light emitting diode and a method of manufacturing the same. Firstly, determining an asymmetric surface type presented by a substrate, determining an asymmetric orientation of the asymmetric surface type, scanning the substrate in the asymmetric orientation, and forming a modified spot in the substrate to make the substrate converge from the asymmetric surface type to a symmetric surface type. A substrate exhibiting a plane of symmetry, such as a bowl, that facilitates wavelength uniformity of subsequently formed epitaxial layers.
To achieve the above and other related objects, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method of processing a substrate exhibiting an asymmetric profile: the method comprises the following steps:
providing a substrate and determining an asymmetric surface type presented by the substrate;
determining an asymmetric orientation of the asymmetric profile and measuring a degree of curvature of the substrate in the asymmetric orientation;
and in the asymmetric orientation, performing laser scanning on the substrate along a scanning line, and forming a modified spot in the substrate so as to make the substrate converge from an asymmetric plane to a symmetric plane.
Optionally, in the asymmetric orientation, laser scanning the substrate along a scanning line, further comprising:
determining a target curvature bow0 of the substrate from the curvature of the substrate in the asymmetric orientation;
calculating a curvature difference value A bow of the target curvature for a curvature value of the base in the asymmetric orientation;
determining the scanning depth of laser scanning on the substrate according to the bending degree difference value delta bow;
and adjusting the spacing between the scanning lines in different orientations according to the bending degree difference delta bow.
Optionally, the processing method further includes: the scanning lines in the same orientation are adjusted to be parallel to each other.
Optionally, the processing method further includes: the distances between the scanning lines in the same orientation are adjusted to be the same, and the distances between the scanning lines in different orientations are different.
Optionally, determining an asymmetric orientation of the asymmetric profile and measuring a bow of the substrate in the asymmetric orientation, further comprising the steps of:
determining a first orientation and a second orientation of the asymmetric face, the first orientation and the second orientation being intersecting asymmetric orientations;
measuring bow 1a first curvature of the substrate in the first orientation;
measuring a second curvature bow2 of the substrate in the second orientation;
a first tortuosity difference Δ bow1 is calculated for the first tortuosity and the target tortuosity for the substrate in the first orientation and a second tortuosity difference Δ bow2 is calculated for the substrate in the second orientation.
Optionally, in the asymmetric orientation, laser scanning the substrate along a scanning line, further comprising:
determining the scanning depth of laser scanning on the substrate according to the first bending difference delta bow1 and the second bending difference delta bow 2;
adjusting a first separation between scan lines in the first orientation based on a first difference in bow Δ bow1 in the first orientation;
adjusting a second spacing between scan lines in the second orientation based on a second difference in bow Δ bow2 in the second orientation.
Optionally, the scanning depth of the laser scanning on the substrate, which is determined according to the bending degree difference Δ bow, is any depth within a range of 2% -98% of the thickness of the substrate.
Optionally, the substrate exhibits an asymmetric profile comprising any one of the following profiles:
the substrates are in the same bending direction but different in bending degree in the asymmetric direction;
a penetration type in which the substrate is bent in one direction and is not bent in another direction asymmetrical to the one direction;
saddle-shaped, the substrate bending in opposite directions in an asymmetrical direction.
Optionally, the modified spots are distributed along the first orientation and the second orientation, and form a grid-like distribution inside the substrate.
Optionally, the modified spots comprise voids formed in the substrate.
Optionally, the modified sites comprise voids formed in the substrate, the voids forming trenches in the substrate.
Another embodiment of the present invention provides a method for preparing a light emitting diode, comprising the steps of:
providing a substrate, and determining an asymmetric surface type presented by the substrate;
determining an asymmetric orientation of the asymmetric profile and measuring a degree of curvature of the substrate in the asymmetric orientation;
in the asymmetric orientation, laser scanning is carried out on the substrate along a scanning line, and a modified point is formed in the substrate so that the substrate is converged from an asymmetric surface type to a symmetric surface type;
forming a light emitting structure over the substrate converging to a plane of symmetry.
Optionally, forming a light emitting structure over the substrate comprises:
forming a first semiconductor layer over the substrate;
forming a multiple quantum well over the first semiconductor layer;
forming a second semiconductor layer over the multiple quantum wells of opposite conductivity to the first semiconductor layer.
Optionally, in the asymmetric orientation, laser scanning the substrate along a scanning line, further comprising:
determining a target curvature bow0 of the substrate from the curvature of the substrate in the asymmetric orientation;
calculating a curvature difference value A bow of the target curvature for a curvature value of the base in the asymmetric orientation;
determining the scanning depth of laser scanning on the substrate according to the bending degree difference value delta bow;
and adjusting the spacing between the scanning lines in different orientations according to the bending degree difference delta bow.
Optionally, the method for preparing the light-emitting diode further comprises: the scanning lines in the same orientation are adjusted to be parallel to each other.
Optionally, the method further comprises: the distances between the scanning lines in the same orientation are adjusted to be the same, and the distances between the scanning lines in different orientations are different.
Another embodiment of the present invention provides a substrate for epitaxial growth, the substrate having a first surface and a second surface, the substrate having a plurality of modified dots formed therein by multiphoton absorption, the modified dots forming a grid-like distribution in two different radial directions of the substrate in a plan view direction along the first surface of the substrate.
Still another embodiment of the present invention provides a light emitting diode including a substrate and a light emitting structure formed over the substrate, wherein the substrate is the substrate for epitaxial growth provided by the present invention.
As described above, the substrate and the processing method thereof, the light emitting diode and the manufacturing method thereof provided by the present invention have at least the following beneficial effects:
in the method of the invention, first an asymmetric profile presented by the substrate is determined, an asymmetric orientation of said asymmetric profile is determined, the substrate is scanned in the asymmetric orientation, modified spots are formed in the substrate such that said substrate converges from the asymmetric profile to a symmetric profile, e.g. a bowl profile. By adjusting the spacing distance of the scanning lines in the asymmetric direction, the scanning lines in the same direction are parallel to each other, and different bending values are generated in the asymmetric direction due to different spacing distances of the scanning lines in the asymmetric direction, so that the bending degree of the substrate in each direction tends to be consistent, and the substrate surface type converges to a symmetric surface type (such as a concentric circle or bowl type). The epitaxial layer grows on the substrate with the convergent symmetrical plane type, so that the wavelength discreteness of the epitaxial layer is reduced, namely, the wavelength of the epitaxial layer is converged, the convergence of the wavelength of the epitaxial layer improves the yield of subsequent devices directly influenced, and the yield of the devices is greatly improved.
In addition, the invention adopts laser to irradiate the substrate, and according to the type, the size and the like of the substrate, parameters such as spot size, pulse wavelength, power, pulse time, irradiation (or scanning) time and the like of laser pulse are adjusted, and the depth of the modified point (hollow or bubble) in the substrate and the size of the modified point are determined. The control process is easy to operate and the control precision is high. In addition, the cost of laser irradiation is relatively low, and thus the cost of substrate processing can be reduced.
The substrate for epitaxy and the semiconductor device of the present invention can be processed by the above method, and thus have the same advantageous effects.
Detailed Description
The embodiments of the present invention are described below with reference to specific embodiments, and other advantages and effects of the present invention will be easily understood by those skilled in the art from the disclosure of the present specification. The invention is capable of other and different embodiments and of being practiced or of being carried out in various ways, and its several details are capable of modification in various respects, all without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
It should be noted that the drawings provided in the present embodiment are only for illustrating the basic idea of the present invention, and although the drawings only show the components related to the present invention and are not drawn according to the number, shape and size of the components in actual implementation, the form, quantity, position relationship and proportion of the components in actual implementation can be changed freely on the premise of implementing the technical solution of the present invention, and the layout form of the components may be more complicated.
The preparation of the substrate is a very important link in the manufacturing process of the semiconductor device, and the yield of the substrate directly influences the performance of the device. Since the substrate is usually a very thin sheet, during the machining process of the substrate, the substrate inevitably has defects of bending, twisting, warping and the like due to uneven stress distribution, and the bending, twisting or warping of the substrate directly affects the subsequent epitaxial film forming quality.
The uneven stress distribution of the substrate causes the substrate to bend, warp or twist in different directions, and the degree and/or direction of the bending in different directions are different, which causes the substrate to present an asymmetric surface shape. If the stress distribution of the substrate is relatively uniform, the bending direction and the bending degree of the substrate in each radial direction tend to be the same, and the substrate presents a symmetrical surface type. The substrate with the symmetrical surface has better bending convergence, and when the substrate is used for epitaxial film formation, the substrate is beneficial to the wavelength convergence of an epitaxial film formation layer.
As shown in fig. 1a to 1d, taking a sapphire substrate as an example, the substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, two perpendicular directions defined as transverse and longitudinal directions as radial extension of the substrate, and a flatness measuring instrument is used to test the curvature distribution of the substrate from one surface of the substrate, and the sapphire substrate generally has four different surface types. As shown in fig. 1a, if the peripheral region of the substrate is curved toward the first surface in the lateral direction and curved toward the second surface in the longitudinal direction, the substrate takes a saddle-like shape, and thus such a substrate profile is generally called saddle-shaped; as shown in fig. 1b, if a part of the peripheral area of the substrate in the lateral direction is curved to the same surface (i.e., the first surface or the second surface) and a part of the peripheral area of the substrate in the longitudinal direction is flat and free from warpage, the substrate profile exhibiting such a curved type is generally called a through type; as shown in fig. 1c, if the peripheral region of the substrate is curved toward the same surface (i.e., the first surface or the second surface) in both the longitudinal direction and the lateral direction, and the degree of curvature in the lateral direction is greater than the degree of curvature in the longitudinal direction at a position at the same distance from the center of the substrate, the substrate profile exhibits a concentric ellipse shape.
The substrate surface shapes shown in fig. 1a to 1c are collectively referred to as asymmetric surface shapes, because the substrate surface shapes shown in fig. 1a to 1c are different in the bending direction and/or the bending degree in different radial directions of the substrate due to the uneven stress distribution, and thus the substrate that should be completely symmetric in each radial direction of the substrate exhibits asymmetric characteristics in some radial directions.
The substrate shown in fig. 1d has a relatively uniform stress distribution, and the substrate bends to almost the same extent at radial positions in the peripheral region at the same distance from the center of the substrate and all bends toward the same surface (i.e., the first surface or the second surface), and such substrate bends to assume a face shape of a concentric circle or a bowl shape. Since the stress distribution of the concentric circular substrate is relatively uniform, the bending direction of the peripheral region in each radial direction is the same, and the bending degree tends to be the same, and the substrate is still substantially symmetrical in each radial direction, the plane shape can be called a symmetrical plane shape. The concentric circular plane type substrate has better bending convergence, and when the substrate is used for epitaxial film formation, the wavelength convergence of an epitaxial film formation layer is facilitated.
In view of the above-described characteristics of substrate warpage, the present embodiment is directed to providing a substrate processing method capable of improving the substrate surface type convergence.
As shown in fig. 1, in an embodiment of the present invention, a method for manufacturing an epitaxial substrate of the present invention includes the steps of:
s01: providing a substrate and determining an asymmetric surface type presented by the substrate;
s02: determining an asymmetric orientation of the asymmetric profile and measuring a degree of curvature of the substrate in the asymmetric orientation;
s03: and in the asymmetric orientation, performing laser scanning on the substrate along a scanning line, and forming a modified spot in the substrate so as to make the substrate converge from an asymmetric plane to a symmetric plane.
In this embodiment, the substrate may be any substrate used in semiconductor manufacturing, and may be a substrate suitable for epitaxial layer growth, for example. In an alternative embodiment, the substrate is a substrate capable of absorbing laser light and forming modified spots therein to improve stress distribution, such as a sapphire substrate. The sapphire substrate may have a thickness of about 50 μm to about 20mm and may have a diameter of about 4 inches to about 18 inches.
Taking a sapphire substrate as an example, the substrate is provided with a first surface and a second surface, and the curvature distribution of the substrate is tested by using a flatness measuring instrument from one surface of the substrate, so that the surface type presented by the substrate is determined.
In an alternative embodiment of this embodiment, as shown in fig. 3a, the peripheral region of the substrate is curved toward the same surface (i.e. the first surface or the second surface) in two different radial directions of the substrate surface, but the substrate is curved to different extents in the two different radial directions at the same distance from the center of the substrate, and at this time, the substrate has a concentric ellipse shape and an asymmetric surface shape.
After determining the profile of the substrate, two asymmetric orientations are determined in which the substrate exhibits asymmetric bending. For the concentric elliptical surface type substrate shown in fig. 3a, a first orientation 101 and a second orientation 102 of the elliptical surface type substrate are determined, and the substrate is bent toward the same surface (i.e., the first surface or the second surface) in both the first orientation 101 and the second orientation 102, but the degree of bending of the substrate is different at the same distance from the center of the substrate.
After the above-described asymmetric orientation of the substrate is determined, the warpage values of the substrate in the asymmetric upward directions are respectively calculated. With reference to fig. 3a, however, the bending bow of the substrate in the first orientation 101 is measured1And a degree of curvature bow of the substrate in the second orientation 1022。
After determining the curvature of the substrate in the asymmetric upward direction, the substrate is scanned with laser, in this embodiment, pulsed laser is selected to scan the substrate. A single pulse with a certain spot size can punch a modified spot with a certain size and depth on a specific material, wherein the modified spot can be a hollow hole or a recast spot, and the hollow hole or the recast spot overlapped with each other forms a groove line or a recast line in the substrate. The size of the modified spot and the depth in the substrate are related to the hardness and melting point of the material and the spot size, energy and wavelength of the single pulse. By adjusting the pulse frequency and the scanning speed, the width and the depth of the modified spots (or the groove lines or recast lines formed by the modified spots) can be regulated and controlled. The parameters of the laser pulses used in this example are described in table 1 below:
TABLE 1 parameters of laser pulses for scanning a substrate
Range
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Time of pulse
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Wavelength (nm)
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Power (W)
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Frequency (kHz)
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Spot size (μm)
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Scanning speed (mm/s)
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Min
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1as
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200
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0.1
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1
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1
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10
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Max
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1ms
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5000
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100
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1000
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105 |
10000 |
According to the parameters such as the type and thickness of the substrate, the substrate is scanned by selecting appropriate parameters within the laser parameters shown in table 1. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is laser scanned from a first surface of the substrate.
As shown in fig. 4, a graph of the relationship between the curvature of the substrate and the depth of focus of the laser pulse before and after the laser scanning is shown under the condition that the scanning line pitch of the laser pulse is constant, where the depth of focus of the laser pulse is defined as the depth of the focal point of the laser pulse from the first surface of the substrate. FIG. 4 shows the change in the degree of curvature of the substrate before and after laser scanning with the depth of focus of the laser pulses at scanning line pitches of 100 μm and 500 μm, respectively. As can be seen from fig. 4, the greater the distance of the depth of focus of the laser pulses from the mid-depth plane of the substrate at a given scan line spacing, the greater the change in the degree of curvature of the substrate. From the curve shown in fig. 4, an appropriate depth of focus of the laser pulse can be selected, in case the substrate profile and the curvature are determined. In this embodiment, a first surface of a sapphire substrate is defined as a surface having a depth of 0, and the depth increases in a direction from the first surface to the second surface. In a preferred embodiment, the laser pulse parameters may be selected such that the depth of focus of the laser pulse is in the range of 2% to 98% of the substrate thickness.
In addition, as can be seen from fig. 4, the change in the curvature of the substrate is related to the spacing between the scan lines of the laser scan, given a constant depth of focus of the laser pulses. Referring to fig. 5, a graph of scan line pitch p versus substrate bow for a given depth of focus of the laser pulses is shown. As can be seen from fig. 5, when the depth of focus of the laser pulse is constant, the larger the pitch p between the scanning lines is, the smaller the change in the curvature of the substrate before and after the laser scanning is, the smaller the pitch p between the scanning lines is, and the larger the change in the curvature of the substrate before and after the laser scanning is.
After determining the assumed asymmetric profile and asymmetric orientation of the substrate and the curvature of the substrate in the asymmetric upward direction, the curvature of the symmetric profile to which the substrate finally converges is determined, as shown in fig. 3 a. As shown above, the concentric circular substrate has relatively uniform stress distribution, the peripheral region has the same bending direction and the same bending degree in each radial direction, and the substrate has good bending convergence, which is beneficial to the wavelength convergence of the epitaxial film formation layer when the substrate is used for epitaxial film formation. Therefore, the concentric circular surface type substrate is set as the target surface type of the asymmetric surface type substrate. And determining a target curvature bow of the target surface form0。
The degree of curvature bow of the substrate in the first orientation 101 is then calculated1And a target curvature bow0A first difference in bending between Δ bow1And a degree of curvature bow of the substrate in the second orientation 1022And a target curvature bow0A second difference in bending Δ bow between2. Then, based on the relationship between the substrate bending and the depth of focus of the laser pulses and the pitch p between the scan lines as shown in fig. 4 and 5, a first bending difference Δ bow is determined according to the above-mentioned first bending difference1And a second difference in tortuosity Δ bow2The depth of focus of the laser pulses is determined and the pitch p between the scan lines is adjusted.
As described above, since the substrate shown in FIG. 3a exhibits a concentric ellipsoidal shape, its first difference in curvature Δ bow1And a second difference in tortuosity Δ bow2Is different. The scan depth of the laser pulses is determined from the relationship between the degree of substrate bending and the depth of focus of the laser pulses and the pitch p between the scan lines as shown in fig. 4 and 5. In alternative embodiments, the depth of focus of the laser pulses is in the range of 2% to 98% of the thickness of the substrate 100, more preferably the depth of focus of the laser pulses is in the range of 10% to 40% of the thickness of the substrate or at a position in the range of 60% to 96% of the thickness (where the position of the range of 10% to 40% of the thickness is closer to the first surface of the substrate for epitaxial growth relative to the position of the range of 60% to 96% of the thickness). In a preferred embodiment of this embodiment, the scan depth is fixed while scanning the first orientation 101 and the second orientation 102 of the substrate. After the depth of focus of the laser pulses is determined, the spacing between the scan lines in the first orientation 101 and the second orientation 102 is adjusted. As shown in fig. 6, a schematic view of a scanning line for scanning the concentric elliptical surface type substrate shown in fig. 3 a. As shown in fig. 6, the scan lines are line segments extending along the first and second curved lines, respectively, and form grid lines, and the scan lines are parallel to each other in the same orientation (first orientation or second orientation). In the first orientation 101, the scan lines have a first spacing D11 between them, in the second orientation, the scan lines have a second spacing D12 between them, and D11 is different from D12. As shown in FIG. 3a, a first curvature bow of the substrate in a first orientation 1011Less than second curvature bow in second orientation 1022In a more preferred embodiment, the target tortuosity value bow0 is greater than bow2I.e. bow1≤bow2≤bow0. Accordingly, the first of the substrateA difference in curvature Δ bow1Greater than a second difference in curvature Δ bow2. As shown in FIG. 5, it may be determined at this point that the separation D11 between scan lines in the first orientation of the substrate is less than the separation D12 between scan lines in the second orientation. It should be noted that the first bending difference Δ bow is described above1And a second difference in curvature Δ bow2Are the absolute values of the difference in tortuosity.
The substrate is scanned in the first orientation and the second orientation from the first surface of the substrate with the scan lines shown in fig. 6, so that the curvature of the scanned substrate in the first orientation and the curvature in the second orientation tend to be the same, and the entire substrate converges to a concentric circular shape. As shown in fig. 9, after the substrate is scanned with the laser, modified spots 500 are formed inside the substrate, and the modified spots may be formed in a circular shape, an elliptical shape, a polygonal shape, or any combination thereof. The shape and type of formation of the modified spot can be changed and/or controlled by controlling the wavelength, pulse time, pulse shape, etc. of the laser. The modified spots 500 shown in fig. 9 may be polycrystals (may also be referred to as thermally modified regions) or voids formed inside the substrate. Taking the cavity as an example, a plurality of cavities are formed in the substrate, and when the size of the cavity is larger than the spacing distance between adjacent cavities, the adjacent cavities overlap to form a groove in the substrate.
After the laser scanning shown in table 1, the formed modified spots 500 are distributed in the thickness range of 2% to 98% of the thickness of the substrate 100, and the size of the formed modified spots 500 is 1 μm to 5 mm. In a preferred embodiment of the present embodiment, the above-described modified site is formed in a thickness range of 10% to 40% of the thickness of the substrate or at a position in a thickness range of 60% to 96% (wherein the position in the thickness range of 10% to 40% is closer to the first surface of the substrate for epitaxial growth than the position in the thickness range of 60% to 96%). In a more preferred embodiment of this embodiment, in the sapphire substrate shown in fig. 3a, the formed modified dots or grooves are distributed along the first orientation and the second orientation, and a grid-like distribution is formed inside the substrate.
In another alternative embodiment of the invention, as shown in FIG. 3b, in one radial directionAnd part of the peripheral area of the upper substrate is bent towards the first surface, and in the other radial direction, part of the peripheral area of the substrate is flat and free from warping, and the substrate presents an asymmetric penetrating surface type. Depending on the surface type of the substrate, the first orientation 201 is defined as the direction in which a portion of the peripheral region is curved towards the first surface of the substrate, and the second orientation 202 is defined as the direction in which a portion of the peripheral region is flat and free of warpage. Measuring a first curvature bow of the substrate in a first orientation 2011And a second curvature bow in a second orientation 2022. And determining a curvature of the symmetric concentric circular profile to which the substrate will eventually converge, i.e., a target curvature bow of the substrate, based on the profile of the substrate0And then calculating the difference between the first curvature and the target curvature and the difference between the second curvature and the target curvature respectively: first difference in curvature Δ bow1And a second difference in curvature Δ bow2. In a preferred embodiment, the target curvature is chosen to be slightly less than the second curvature bow for sapphire substrates exhibiting a through-type profile2I.e. such that Δ bow1>Δbow2. It should also be noted that the first difference in curvature Δ bow is described above1And a second difference in curvature Δ bow2Are the absolute values of the difference in tortuosity.
As described above, the relation A bow of the difference in bending of the substrate in the first orientation 201 and the second orientation 202 is determined1>Δbow2The depth of focus of the laser pulses is determined according to fig. 4, and in a preferred embodiment, in order to make the scanning process easier to control, the spacing of the scan lines in the first and second orientations is then determined according to the amount of change in substrate bending and the spacing between the scan lines as shown in fig. 5. For the transmissive substrate shown in this embodiment, the selected scan lines are as shown in fig. 7. As shown in fig. 7, the scan lines are line segments extending in a first orientation and a second orientation, respectively, the scan lines in the two orientations forming grid lines, the scan lines being parallel to each other in the first orientation, and the scan lines being also parallel to each other in the second orientation; but the separation D21 between scan lines in the first orientation is less than the separation D22 between scan lines in the second orientation.
The substrate having the transmissive surface type is scanned with laser light from the first surface of the substrate along the scanning line shown in fig. 7, and a modified spot 500 shown in fig. 9 is formed inside the substrate, and the modified spot may be formed in a circular shape, an elliptical shape, a polygonal shape, or any combination thereof. The shape and type of formation of the modified spot can be changed and/or controlled by controlling the wavelength, pulse time, pulse shape, etc. of the laser. Modified dots 500 may be polycrystalline (also referred to as thermally modified regions) or hollow formed within the substrate. Taking the cavity as an example, a plurality of cavities are formed in the substrate, and when the size of the cavity is larger than the spacing distance between adjacent cavities, the adjacent cavities overlap to form a groove in the substrate.
The modified spots 500 are also distributed in the thickness range of 2% to 98% of the thickness of the substrate 100, and the size of the modified spots 500 is 1 μm to 5 mm. In a preferred embodiment of the present embodiment, the above-described modified site is formed in a thickness range of 10% to 40% of the thickness of the substrate for growth or at a position in the thickness range of 60% to 96% (wherein the position in the thickness range of 10% to 40% is closer to the first surface of the substrate for epitaxial growth than the position in the thickness range of 60% to 96%). In the sapphire substrate of the through type shown in fig. 3b, the modified spots are formed at the position of 40% of the thickness of the substrate. The formed modified points or grooves are distributed along the first orientation and the second orientation, and are distributed in a grid shape in the substrate.
In another alternative embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 3c, the substrate is curved in one radial direction toward the second surface of the substrate and curved in a different radial direction toward the first surface of the substrate, the substrate assuming a saddle-shaped profile. According to the surface type of the substrate, as shown in fig. 3c, a direction in which the substrate is bent toward the second surface of the substrate is defined as a first orientation 301, and a direction in which the substrate is bent toward the first surface is defined as a second orientation 302. Measuring a first curvature bow of the substrate in the first orientation 301, respectively1And a second degree of curvature bow in a second orientation 3022While determining the target curvature bow of the symmetric concentric circular profile to which the substrate will eventually converge0. In a preferred embodiment of this embodiment, the concentric circular shape into which the substrate eventually converges is defined as a concentric circular shape that curves toward the first surface of the substrate, the target curve bow0Near or slightly greater or slightly less than the curvature bow of the substrate in the second orientation2. Thus, a first curvature bow in the first orientation 301 is calculated1And a target curvature bow0Is a difference of first bending degree Δ bow1Second degree of curvature bow in second orientation 3022And a target curvature bow0Is a difference of first bending degree Δ bow2. As can be seen from the above, Δ bow1>Δbow2. It should be noted that, since the substrate shown in fig. 3c is curved toward the second surface and the first surface of the substrate in the first orientation and the second orientation, respectively, it is defined that the degree of curvature curved toward the first surface is a positive value and the degree of curvature curved toward the second surface is a negative value. The first difference in curvature Δ bow described above1And a second difference in curvature Δ bow2Are the absolute values of the difference in tortuosity.
The depth of focus of the laser pulses is then determined according to fig. 4, and in a preferred embodiment, in order to make the scanning process easier to control, the same depth of focus of the laser pulses is selected in the first and second orientations. The spacing of the scan lines in the first and second orientations is then determined from the relationship between the degree of substrate bending and the spacing between the scan lines as shown in figure 5. For the transmissive substrate shown in this embodiment, the selected scan lines are as shown in fig. 8. As shown in fig. 8, the scan lines are line segments extending in a first orientation and a second orientation, respectively, the scan lines in the two orientations forming grid lines, the scan lines being parallel to each other in the first orientation, and the scan lines being also parallel to each other in the second orientation; but the separation D31 between scan lines in the first orientation is less than the separation D32 between scan lines in the second orientation.
The substrate having the saddle-shaped profile is scanned with laser light from the first surface of the substrate along the scanning line shown in fig. 8, and a modified spot 500 as shown in fig. 9 is formed inside the substrate, and the modified spot may be formed in a circular shape, an elliptical shape, a polygonal shape, or any combination thereof. The shape and type of formation of the modified spot can be changed and/or controlled by controlling the wavelength, pulse time, pulse shape, etc. of the laser. Modified dots 500 may be polycrystalline (also referred to as thermally modified regions) or hollow formed within the substrate. Taking the cavity as an example, a plurality of cavities are formed in the substrate, and when the size of the cavity is larger than the spacing distance between adjacent cavities, the adjacent cavities overlap to form a groove in the substrate. The formed modified points or grooves are distributed along the first orientation and the second orientation, and are distributed in a grid shape in the substrate.
The modified spots 500 are also distributed in the thickness range of 2% to 98% of the thickness of the substrate 100, and the size of the modified spots 500 is 1 μm to 5 mm. In a preferred embodiment of the present embodiment, the above-described modified site is formed in a thickness range of 10% to 40% of the thickness of the substrate for growth or at a position in the thickness range of 60% to 96% (wherein the position in the thickness range of 10% to 40% is closer to the first surface of the substrate for epitaxial growth than the position in the thickness range of 60% to 96%). As described above, in the present invention, during the processing of the substrate, the substrate is scanned by fixing the depth of focus of the laser pulse and adjusting the distance between the scanning lines in different orientations.
In order to verify the surface type of the converged sapphire substrate, as shown in fig. 10, a box plot of the ratio of the warp degree to the bow degree of the substrate which is not scanned by laser and the substrate which is scanned by laser in the method of the present invention before epitaxial growth is shown, as can be seen from fig. 10, the mean value of the warp degree/the bow degree of the untreated sapphire substrate is 3.18, and the standard deviation is 3.47; the mean value of the warp/bow of the sapphire substrate after the laser scanning processing described in this embodiment is 1.01, and the standard deviation is 0.04 (the warp and the bow are measured by a flatness measuring apparatus (e.g., a political GSS machine)).
The substrate having a warp to bow ratio range according to different surface types is shown in table 2 below:
TABLE 2 substrate profile and warp/bow Range
Surface type
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Concentric circle type
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Saddle shape
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Penetration type
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Oval shape
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Warp/bow
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1~1.5
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>2.5
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<1
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1.5~2.5 |
Therefore, after the laser scanning in this embodiment, the mean value of the warp/bow of the sapphire substrate is between 1 and 1.5, that is, the substrate surface is concentric. And the standard deviation of the warp/bow of the substrate is as low as 0.04, and the convergence of the substrate profile is improved. The substrate is converged into a concentric circle shape and has high convergence, which is beneficial to improving the wavelength convergence of the subsequent epitaxial layer.
Another embodiment of the present invention provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, as shown in fig. 11, including the steps of:
step S100: providing a substrate, and determining an asymmetric surface type presented by the substrate;
step S200: determining an asymmetric orientation of the asymmetric profile and measuring a degree of curvature of the substrate in the asymmetric orientation;
step S300: in the asymmetric orientation, laser scanning is carried out on the substrate along a scanning line, and a modified point is formed in the substrate so that the substrate is converged from an asymmetric surface type to a symmetric surface type;
step S400: and forming at least one semiconductor epitaxial layer on the first surface of the substrate.
The steps S100 to S300 are the same as the processing method of the substrate with an asymmetric surface according to the previous embodiment of the present invention, and are not repeated herein. In step S400, forming at least one epitaxial semiconductor layer over the first surface of the substrate includes:
forming a first semiconductor layer over a first surface of the substrate;
forming a multiple quantum well over the first semiconductor layer;
forming a second semiconductor layer of opposite conductivity to the first semiconductor layer on the multiple quantum well.
In an alternative embodiment, N number (N is 1000) of sapphire substrates are used for epitaxial growth, N/2 number of substrates are subjected to laser scanning processing through scanning lines shown in fig. 6 to 8, the rest N/2 number of substrates are not subjected to laser scanning processing, the N/2 number and the rest N/2 number of substrates simultaneously include four surface types shown in fig. 1a to 1d, then the mean value of the curvatures and the standard deviation of the curvatures STD of the N/2 number of sapphire substrates after laser scanning and the rest N/2 number of sapphire substrates without laser processing in different epitaxial growth stages are respectively measured, and the obtained result is compared with the graph shown in fig. 12.
As can be seen from fig. 11, the mean values of the curvatures of the sapphire substrate treated by the method of the present invention and the untreated sapphire substrate at different stages of epitaxial growth are substantially the same, and there is no great difference. However, the standard deviation of the curvatures of the two are obviously different, for example, after the growth of the n-type GaN layer, the standard deviation STD of the curvatures of the sapphire substrate treated by the method of the embodiment is about 0.6, and the standard deviation of the curvatures of the untreated sapphire substrate is about 9.85; in the multiple quantum well growth process, the standard deviation STD of the curvature of the sapphire substrate treated by the method of the embodiment is about 1.21, and the standard deviation of the curvature of the untreated sapphire substrate is about 2.54; as can be seen from the comparison of the different epitaxial processes, compared with the standard deviation of the curvature of the untreated sapphire substrate, the standard deviation of the curvature of the sapphire substrate treated by the method of the present embodiment in the epitaxial growth process is significantly reduced, that is, the curvature of the sapphire substrate treated by the laser according to the present embodiment in the epitaxial growth process is obviously convergent.
To further verify the optimization of the wavelength standard deviation (STD) of the epitaxial layer formed on the substrate subsequently by the method of the present embodiment, the wavelength standard deviation of the wavelength of the epitaxy of different application products formed on the sapphire substrate processed by the method of the present invention was measured. As shown in table 3 below, the convergence improvement rate of the epitaxial wavelengths of the different products, i.e., the reduction width of the standard deviation of the wavelengths (assuming that the standard deviation of the wavelength STD1 of the epitaxial wavelength of each applied product formed on the sapphire substrate processed by the method described in this embodiment and the standard deviation of the wavelength STD2 of the epitaxial wavelength of each product formed on the sapphire substrate processed by the method described in this embodiment, the reduction width in table 3 is ((STD2-STD 1)% 100%)/(STD 1)).
TABLE 3 reduction of the standard deviation of the wavelengths of the different products
As can be seen from fig. 12 and table 3 above, the stress generated by the modified spots 500 generated inside the substrate can effectively uniformize the stress distribution of the substrate, and improve the convergence of the substrate, so that the substrate converges into the concentric circular surface type shown in fig. 1 d. The concentric circular surface type substrate is beneficial to the wavelength convergence of the epitaxial layer, so that the standard deviation STD of the wavelength is reduced by nearly 11-25%.
As described above, the substrate and the processing method thereof, the light emitting diode and the manufacturing method thereof provided by the present invention have at least the following beneficial effects:
in the method of the invention, first an asymmetric profile presented by the substrate is determined, an asymmetric orientation of said asymmetric profile is determined, the substrate is scanned in the asymmetric orientation, modified spots are formed in the substrate such that said substrate converges from the asymmetric profile to a symmetric profile, e.g. a bowl profile. By adjusting the spacing distance of the scanning lines in the asymmetric direction, the scanning lines in the same direction are parallel to each other, and different bending values are generated in the asymmetric direction due to different spacing distances of the scanning lines in the asymmetric direction, so that the bending degree of the substrate in each direction tends to be consistent, and the substrate surface type converges to a symmetric surface type (such as a concentric circle or bowl type). The epitaxial layer grows on the substrate with the convergent symmetrical plane type, so that the wavelength discreteness of the epitaxial layer is reduced, namely, the wavelength of the epitaxial layer is converged, the convergence of the wavelength of the epitaxial layer improves the yield of subsequent devices directly influenced, and the yield of the devices is greatly improved.
In addition, the invention adopts laser to irradiate the substrate, and according to the type, the size and the like of the substrate, parameters such as spot size, pulse wavelength, power, pulse time, irradiation (or scanning) time and the like of laser pulse are adjusted, and the depth of the modified point (hollow or bubble) in the substrate and the size of the modified point are determined. The control process is easy to operate and the control precision is high. In addition, the cost of laser irradiation is relatively low, and thus the cost of substrate processing can be reduced.
The substrate for epitaxy and the semiconductor device of the present invention can be processed by the above method, and thus have the same advantageous effects.
The foregoing embodiments are merely illustrative of the principles and utilities of the present invention and are not intended to limit the invention. Any person skilled in the art can modify or change the above-mentioned embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Accordingly, it is intended that all equivalent modifications or changes which can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and technical spirit of the present invention be covered by the claims of the present invention.